Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Netherlands January 2015

Star of the Month

GTE Superstar Edition

A surge in EV sales happpened this January, with 2.506 units, being the best sales month since December '13 and the best January ever by a large margin, to put it in context, the previous January record accounted 532 units...The big news were the 900 units sold by the Golf GTE, the best result by a single model since May '14, will this be the beggining of a new success story?

Last year leader, Mitsu Outlander PHEV was #2, with 579 units, followed by the #2 in '14, the Volvo V60 Plug-In, while in #4 the Smart Fortwo ED continues to amaze, with 174 units, followed by the Porsche Cayenne Plug-in, with 136 units(!) and the Tesla Model S, that for the first time had three consecutive months above 100 units.Final mention for the brilliant result of the BMW i8, with a record 31 units and almost outselling its smaller (And cheaper) brother i3 (32 units).